The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological OpinionsHarper & brothers, 1853 |
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... idea ; where the body is wholly penetrated by the soul , and spiritualized even to a state of glory , and like a transparent substance , the matter , in its own nature darkness , becomes altogether a vehicle and fixure of light , a mean ...
... idea ; where the body is wholly penetrated by the soul , and spiritualized even to a state of glory , and like a transparent substance , the matter , in its own nature darkness , becomes altogether a vehicle and fixure of light , a mean ...
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... idea , and reduces it into form , -into a work of art , — by metre and music , is the Aristophanes of the country . How just this account is will appear from the fact that in the first or old comedy of the Athenians , most of the ...
... idea , and reduces it into form , -into a work of art , — by metre and music , is the Aristophanes of the country . How just this account is will appear from the fact that in the first or old comedy of the Athenians , most of the ...
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... idea , or according to what it does , or ought to , aim at , as a combination of several or of all the fine arts in an harmonious whole , having a distinct end of its own , to which the peculiar end of each of the component arts , taken ...
... idea , or according to what it does , or ought to , aim at , as a combination of several or of all the fine arts in an harmonious whole , having a distinct end of its own , to which the peculiar end of each of the component arts , taken ...
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... idea , by all the speeches receiving light from it , and attesting its reality by reflecting it . Lastly , in Shakspeare the heterogeneous is united , as it is in nature . You must not suppose a pressure or passion always acting on or ...
... idea , by all the speeches receiving light from it , and attesting its reality by reflecting it . Lastly , in Shakspeare the heterogeneous is united , as it is in nature . You must not suppose a pressure or passion always acting on or ...
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... ideas moved slow ; his versification , though sweet , is tedious , it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line , making ... idea has burst its shell , another is hatched and clamor- ous for disclosure . " Characters of Dram . Writers ...
... ideas moved slow ; his versification , though sweet , is tedious , it stops at every turn ; he lays line upon line , making ... idea has burst its shell , another is hatched and clamor- ous for disclosure . " Characters of Dram . Writers ...
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Page 110 - Amen, amen ! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight : Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
Page 116 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 103 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 153 - My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.
Page 163 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 150 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 161 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
Page 305 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 137 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Page 153 - A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king, and marry with his brother.